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SUBMITTER: Amatullah H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8270075 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amatullah Hajera H Jeffrey Kate L KL
Current opinion in microbiology 20200801
Environmental triggers in the context of genetic susceptibility drive phenotypes of complex immune disorders such as Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). One such trigger of IBD is perturbations in enteric commensal bacteria, fungi or viruses that shape both immune and neuronal state. The epigenome acts as an interface between microbiota and context-specific gene expression and is thus emerging as a third key contributor to IBD. Here we review evidence that the host epigenome plays a significant ro ...[more]